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[[I Thought It Meant|Not about]] massively-multiplayer online games that are scams; for that, see [[Allegedly Free Game]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', {{spoiler|Genkai}} arranges for Yusuke to be kidnapped and has Kaito, Yanagisawa and Kido test them with their special "territory"-based abilities, in order to {{spoiler|prepare them for the fight against Sensui's Seven}}.
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== Music ==
* The video for ''The Call'' by the [[Backstreet Boys]] involves one of these. ''[[Mind Screw|Probably]]''.
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* This happened a ''[[Good Is Dumb|lot]]'' to [[Wrestler/Sting|Sting]] in his [[WCW]] run, often at the hands of [[Ric Flair]] and [[The Four Horsemen]] or Lex Luger. Perhaps the most famous example occurred in an angle involving our hero and Flair in 1995. Flair lost a match to Arn Anderson at Fall Brawl due to interference from Brian Pillman, and spent the next month trying to convince an extremely wary Sting to be his partner against the duo for Halloween Havoc. After weeks of vehement refusal, Flair finally got Sting to relent, but not before the latter threatened to mess up the former real good if he got screwed. Before the match, Anderson and Pillman ambushed and seemingly injured Flair, forcing Sting to face the heels by himself. However, in the middle of the match, as Sting was getting his ass kicked, Flair appeared to the roar of the crowd and took his place at Sting's corner. Sting played [[Ricky Morton]] for a long time, getting closer and closer to making the tag to Flair each time. When he finally made the tag, the arena went nuts, and Flair looked prepared to ''kill'' Arn and Pillman...and then [[Face Heel Turn|proceeded to immediately lay out Sting]], revealing that the entire incident was a set up to re-form [[The Four Horsemen]] and humiliate Sting.
** It got so bad that in one match it was lampshaded when Sting gave his valet Elizabeth a can of mace to use in case any of the heels tried to make a move on her. Predictably, she turned around and used the mace on Sting later in the match—only it wasn't mace, it was ''silly string''! This was the only time Sting ever managed to outsmart someone.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* 419Eater is a website that deals exclusively with getting back at those infamous Nigerian scammers that we've all gotten emails from. It leads on the scammers into thinking that they will be getting the money they asked for, often leading into ridiculous situations. They sometimes con the scammers into posing for pictures to ensure that the money will be sent; these photos are then used for banners on the website and posted in galleries. Sometimes they even manage to get money from the scammers themselves, which is then donated to charity. These scams frequently end with the [http://www.419eater.com/images/audio/martins_jide/martins_jide_191004b.mp3 untimely death of the would-be 'sucker'].▼
** The pictures are often humiliating, degrading, and frankly ridiculous. One particularly [[Egregious]] example is [[Crowning Moment of Funny|a naked man standing on two chairs, with a laptop suspended from his sensitive bits, while holding two torches and a sign (taped to his chest) proclaiming how serious he is.]]▼
** Another 419Eater staple is the "safari", in which the would-be scammer is convinced that due to a mix-up at the Western Union [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle|Your Money Is In Another City.]] Cue a wild goose chase of hundreds of miles.▼
* Equally amusing would be the [http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/ P-P-P-Powerbook prank], which involved an eBay scammer being shipped a binder covered in glued-on keyboard keys, and paying about 600 dollars for it to boot.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* In a somewhat troperrific episode of ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', a surgeon specializing in cybernetic prosthetic limbs is coerced into providing some punks with weaponized cybernetic enhancements because they've kidnapped his girlfriend. Of course, the girlfriend was working with the gang all along, and the whole thing was probably her idea. {{spoiler|The doctor eventually finds out, but the gang's leader doesn't realize he knows, and comes to the doctor for repairs one last time...}}
{{quote|[[Fade to Black|"I understand...no holding back."]]}}
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* 419Eater is a website that deals exclusively with getting back at those infamous Nigerian scammers that we've all gotten emails from. It leads on the scammers into thinking that they will be getting the money they asked for, often leading into ridiculous situations. They sometimes con the scammers into posing for pictures to ensure that the money will be sent; these photos are then used for banners on the website and posted in galleries. Sometimes they even manage to get money from the scammers themselves, which is then donated to charity. These scams frequently end with the [http://www.419eater.com/images/audio/martins_jide/martins_jide_191004b.mp3 untimely death of the would-be 'sucker'].
▲** The pictures are often humiliating, degrading, and frankly ridiculous. One particularly [[Egregious]] example is [[Crowning Moment of Funny|a naked man standing on two chairs, with a laptop suspended from his sensitive bits, while holding two torches and a sign (taped to his chest) proclaiming how serious he is.]]
▲** Another 419Eater staple is the "safari", in which the would-be scammer is convinced that due to a mix-up at the Western Union [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle|Your Money Is In Another City.]] Cue a wild goose chase of hundreds of miles.
▲* Equally amusing would be the [http://www.zug.com/pranks/powerbook/ P-P-P-Powerbook prank], which involved an eBay scammer being shipped a binder covered in glued-on keyboard keys, and paying about 600 dollars for it to boot.
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